Chione Abore, a illegal hybrid, has been held in the noble household of the Nightingales since she was young. She was taken as a punishment to her parents, a earth deity and a siren of the nile. On the week of her coming of age ceremony she is promised as a bride to a son of the deity of the dead, Abanoub, the heir to the throne on the underworld.

an old southern town where everyone knows eachother and the only outside income is the news on old static tvs and the towns phone lines.The church practically controls the population with no inteference since the town has been brainwashed by them since the first walls ofthe church were built, though recently...there is a threat and Dorothy Cross knows it.